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Vol. 1. 1906. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman.

As the wife of George, who "believes in pipes, not poems" (Traubel 1:227), Louisa was probably also somewhat

Vol. 1. Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 4. Ed. Sculley Bradley. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1953.

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906. Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence. Ed. Edwin Haviland Miller.

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906. Winter, William.

In chapter 1, a New York fireman, George Willis, spends his day off traveling to Hoboken (New Jersey)

implicit in "Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841) and explicit in "Dumb Kate" (1844) and in number 1

Aristidean, March 1845, as "Arrow-Tip" and reprinted with its current title in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1–

Whitman's belief that "the best government is that which governs the least" (Gathering 1:60) borrowed

Democratic candidate in 1844 would be "carried into power on the wings of a mighty re-action" (Uncollected 1:

Whitman, who hoped the nomination would lead to a "renewed and vital [Free Soil] party" (Correspondence 1:

must be continual additions to our "great experiment of how much liberty society will bear" (Gathering 1:

Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962. 1–14.____. "The Eighteenth Presidency!" A Critical Text. Ed.

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (1991): 1–14.Campos, Geir, trans. Folhas das Folhas de Relva.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.____.

He referred to the Democratic party as "the party of the sainted Jefferson and Jackson" (Gathering 1:

policies, but by late 1863 he conceded, "I still think him a pretty big President" (Correspondence 1:

Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them all" (Correspondence 1:

His initial impression of Johnson, "I think he is a good man" (Correspondence 1:267), remained, and he

poetry—only practical sense, ability to do, or try his best to do, what devolv'd upon him" (Prose Works 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.Whitman, Walt.

In line 1, there are two phrasal groups, each containing two accents, falling in the same positions—primary

The two groups have the same accentual contour—falling 1–2, primary to secondary prominence.

Line 2 does not pick up the iambic rhythm of line one but rather this 1–2 falling contour.

Again there are two groups, with 1–2 contours, with the first accent on pronouns—I and you and -sume

version in 1881.Sidney Krause divides the poem's six numbered sections into three parts: I, section 1;

themes are specified respectively in line 51, "And man and art with nature fused at last" (section 1)

way from Life to Death" (section 6), which will provide for a new departure in his poetry.In section 1

world "[n]ourish'd henceforth by the celestial dream" (section 6) that he has described in sections 1

And, in "The Sleepers," the healer makes electrical healing pass over diseased sleepers (section 1).

recall the past and predict a joyous future, resembles the invisible musicians of séances (sections 1

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1961.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols.

Vol. 1. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961.Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas.

between 1847 and early 1855: "Make no quotations, and no reference to any other writers" (Notebooks 1:

you could reduce the Leaves to their elements you would see Scott unmistakably active at the roots" (1:

injustices of the age, he was also "a mark'd illustration" of the maladies he condemned (Prose Works 1:

"Tennyson is an artist even when he writes a letter," Whitman commented in 1888 (With Walt Whitman 1:

Vols. 1–3. 1906–1914. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961; Vol. 4. Ed. Sculley Bradley.

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.Whitman, Walt. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. Riverby

reconstructing the relationship between poet and reader: "what I assume you shall assume" (section 1)

eccentric,' 'vagabond' or queer person, that the commentators … persist in making him" (Correspondence 1:

Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 22 (1972): 1–17.Mayakovsky, Vladimir.

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 1–10.González de la Garza, Mauricio.

on 20 March 1847 which urged the construction of an observatory in Brooklyn (Gathering 2:146–149).On 1

, the substantial words are in the ground and sea, / They are in the air, they are in you" (section 1)

Washington Monument in the nation's capital and Boston's "chimney-shaped" Bunker Hill Monument (Uncollected 1:

In the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Whitman cited Brown as an artist of "genius and industry" (Uncollected 1:

Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1971. 3–45.Nathanson, Tenney.

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.Warren, James Perrin. Walt Whitman's Language Experiment.

Most significantly, after the 1871 edition Whitman excised from the end of section 1 a strikingly explicit

In the wet dream or masturbatory climax of section 1, the dreamer's penis, in the symbol of a pier, reaches

These critics have persuasively interpreted the tangled imagery accompanying the wet dream of section 1

This reading, while offering a persuasive explanation of sections 1 and 2, has more difficulty justifying

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 8 (1990): 1–15.Hutchinson, George.

He writes in his American Primer that nothing is "more spiritual than words" (1).The poet's relationship

substantial words" are all around us—in the "ground and sea . . . in the air . . . in you" (section 1)

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5.1 (1987): 1–11.Whitman, Walt. An American Primer. 1904. Ed.

(section 1)More broadly, the image has taken precedence over substance, the abstract simulacra has replaced

(section 1) But the earlier version begins on an intimate, even erotic note:Come closer to me,Push closer

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1984. "Song of Joys, A" (1860)

In section 1, he takes on the mysterious name of the Answerer (always capitalized in the later editions

Especially in section 1, the vision of the poet as an all-permeating divine force, something like Ralph

Early versions of what becomes section 1 also include a passage, excised when Whitman created "Song of

(section 1)The emphatic rhythm of these lines suggests a riddle (see Peavy), or perhaps, as M.

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2.1 (1984): 1–11.Knapp, Bettina L. Walt Whitman.

of the road's sights and sounds and his translation of them into a visionary consciousness (sections 1–

The Nassau Review 1 (1965). 101–110.Hollis, C. Carroll. Language and Style in "Leaves of Grass."

speaker in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859), hears the tree's voice in his "soul" (section 1)

This implied divine promise will be the culmination of humankind in an "empire new" (section 1), which

masters"—i.e., the true poets—"know the earth's words and use them more than audible words" (section 1)

: if the true words are "inaudible"—and, as Whitman later adds, "untransmissible by print" (section 1)

passage pivots on a description of the earth as a woman, "her ample back towards every beholder" (section 1)

Thus translated into visual terms, the "eloquent dumb great mother" (section 1) begins to seem oddly

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1.1 (1983): 1–8. Hollis, C. Carroll.

which the poet witnessed in America following the Civil War "[n]estles the seed perfection" (section 1)

Vol. 1. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Nascimiento, 1939.Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.

Silent Sun," Whitman describes the desire to "warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself" (section 1)

lengths.After identifying himself and announcing that he "will strike up for a New World" (section 1)

[s]olitary" identity all other identities are fused, he will "strike up" for "a New World" (section 1)

Rocking," which was composed in 1858–1859, but to "the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars" (section 1)

peace" was Epictetus's prescription that what is good for nature is good for oneself (With Walt Whitman 1:

Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963. Stoicism

loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" (section 1)

With the hope that this caveat will be kept firmly in mind, here are some suggestions: (1) biographies

fears of annihilation, expresses terror ("Something startles me where I thought I was safest" [section 1]

section 2) of which is packed with "all the foul liquid and meat" of "distemper'd corpses" (section 1)

Saint Paul's sermon on the conquest of death and the rebirth of the soul (1 Corinthians 15) speaks of

Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. New York: New York UP, 1963.

Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Ireland, Whitman in

Parts 1 and 2. Masa 8 (29 May 1952): 4–5; 9 (12 June 1952): 3, 8, 9, 11.Porat, Zephyra.

swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys" riding through Manhattan on 16 June 1860 ("A Broadway Pageant," section 1)